linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)

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Message-ID: <20061211180049.GA18821@aepfle.de>
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:00:49 +0100
From:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steve Fox <drfickle@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)

On Mon, Dec 11, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> it's for sure the most ugly one. I could see the use of having modinfo
> work on the vmlinux, and have the vmlinux have a VERMAGIC as well. It's
> only a simple elf section after all, and a heck of a lot more defined
> and standard...

Just go for it. Remember there is also that bzImage thingy, no idea how
its layed out, it has to work there too.
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